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Published by Inusah Dondaliya
Date: 3rd January, 2026.
The Member of Parliament for Tolon, Hon. Alhaj Habib Iddrisu has touted his achievements through youth empowerment initiatives, employment opportunities, and boosting livelihoods of Constituents, marking significant strides under his stewardship to benefit the people.
Key among his achievements, the Deputy Minority Chief Whip noted that he has successfully attained hundred percent access to electricity across the Constituency in line with universal access to electricity in the country by 2030.
In an interview on Tonlon Radio as part of its New year Show, the MP disclosed that almost every community in the Constituency is connected to national grid except seven communities which have been fully wired pending commissioning as the electricity projects at the various communities near completion.
Speaking in Dagbani, Hon. Habib said, “I can say for certainty that I have attained 100 percent electricity access in Tolon Constituency. This is unprecedented. It is left with about 7 communities which will be also connected soon because they have been wired near completion. And in not distant future I will hook them too to the national grid just as I did with the others.
Hitherto, a lot of communities in the Tolon Constituency had not been hooked to the national grid with majority of community members sleeping in darkness for over decades but for the intervention of their MP, the darkness has been a thing of the past, replaced by illuminations across the Constituency through the efforts of the second term Member of Parliament of the area.
The MP underscored livelihood opportunities created for Constituents through empowerment initiatives, creating avenues for some of the youth within his circles to explore greener pastures and furthering studies in broad, among others.
According to the MP, he has also equiped majority of the Constituency Executives with logistics such as vehicles to enhance their operations and performing party functions as required, sponsoring their trips to visit the Holy Land for the performance of the Hajj, marking fulfilment of one of the pillars in Islam.
“My Constituency Chairman, 1st Vice, Secretary, Organizer have been sorted and covered. I have given all them vehicles to use on their own. I have also sent them to Hajj in addition” Alhaj Habib boasted on the program.
Hon.Habib was responding to questions from the host of the program on how he has either influence or touch lives using his office since representing the people at the August House.In his answers, he minced no words but asserted forcefully the interventions he has brought in place to impact lives and improved livelihoods at homes.
